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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-8-12, Page 7• •REDSIVILL NOT HALT ARMIES AT ORDS R OF GREAT BRITAIN Polish Defence Stiffens But T Warsaw—Bolshevist River here is Small Hope of Saving Offensive Along Bug Halted. A despatch from London says:—The Russian Soviet's reply to Great Bri- tain's call for a halt of the Bolshevik advance in Poland is a refusal, ac- cording to The London Times. The newspaper says the ground taken is that the armies would not obey- an order to halt, and will only be content when they reach Warsaw, which has been pronnised to thein for loot A despatch from Paris says:—In- spired by a wave of patriotis ia. in the rear, and encouraged by the arrival of areas and munitions, the Polish arzry seems to be stiffening its defence against the invasion of the Bolshe- vists, who are virtually at the gates of Warsaw, Poland's Capital, Although but vague and somewhat contradictory ,reports have reached Paris, it is regarded here that the Poles still have a chance of stopping the Red drive and limiting the extent of the disaster. They apparently have not altogether abandoned the line of the Bug River. The Brest -Litovsk forts at last accounts were still in the possession of the Poles, and denial is made that the Bolshevists have reach- ed Qstrolenko, The Palish Staff, even, has been able to launch two counter- offensives in the north, in the region of Lomza and In the extreme south in Galicia, Another factor held by military o°, - servers to favor the Poles in that in view of the imperfect transport of the Bolshevistss their rate of progress necessarily decreases as the length of their line of communication increases. A despatch from Warsaw says,— FEW RETURN FROM MESOPOTAMIA British Unit Practically Wiped Out—Colonel Among Slain. A. despatch from London says:—In- formation reached the Daily News on Thursday indicating that the disaster to the British force in Mesopotamia, reported Wednesday, is much more serious than the meagre reports sup- plied he the War Office indicated. Three hundred casualties were suffer- ed by a battalion of a Manchester re- giment,and practically all the 300 were killed. The column was composed of a bat - Winn of Manchester's six-gun battery, some sappers and miners. The colonel in command and practically the whole of three companies were among the killed. A few stragglers were all that returned, but four guns of the battery were saved. A fresh division has been ordered from India to Mesopotamia. Inquiries to the Ashton -Under -Tyne depot of the Manohesters showed that the second battalion was commanded by Col, Wright, who went to Mesopo. tames in March. The Zillah garrison, on the lower Euphrates, is still holding out, The town has been. partly burned up, The Arabs lost 130 dead and many wound- ed in a new attack north-west of Hills. Expect to Keep Tab: on Ships by Phone A despateh from.London says:—At the new long-distance• wireless tele- phone station being built at Devises, Wiltshire, it is expected the public can calltip friends on Atlantic liners 1,100 miles at sea. It is hoped the Devises station will keep in touch with ships two-thirds of the way across the ocean. Experiments to fully test the practicability of the plan will be made shortly. Each calf and reply is expected to consume about an hour. Czar and Czar'ina's Gems Smuggled Into England A despatch from England says:-- Priceless ays:—Pr'iceles's jewels, formerly the property of the Czar and Czarina, of Russia, have been successfully smuggled into England, despite the vigilance of the authorities, according to a warning issued to London .diamond merchants. Itis said the Soviet emissaries who brought fin the gems intend selling The Bolshevist offensive against the Poles along the Bug River between Brest -Litovsk and the confluence of the Nurzec has been stopped. The Polish counter -offensive north and south is developing successfully, and the new Polish army eeneentrated be- tween the Narew and Bug Rivers has driven the enemy back to the edge of the iwovince of Grodno, notwithstand- ing the pressure of the Bolshevik forces which crossed the Narew op- posite Lonza. In Volhynia the Polish positions, upon the Upper Styr, on the Stochod and in the Pripet Marshes, are hold- ing well, Enemy cavalry continues advancing along the Prussian frontier in the di- rection of the Danzig-x,Ilawa,Warsaw Railway, but, in view of the small number of efl'ectives employed, this movement, airnes at the Thorn region, constitutes for the moment at least only an extensive den enstration against Polish Pomerania, W.ith the Bolshevists virtually knocking at the gates of Warsaw the populace bas been aroused to the high- est pitch of patriotic fervor, The en- tire press declares that Warsaw must not surrender to the invader. Fresh drafts of conscripts and many.,. volunteers are moving toward the front, many of them boys of fourteen - and fifteen years of age. The Govern mc:tt in its extremity has called to the colors the classes of 1890 to 1895 from the district between the Rivers Vistula and San for the defence of this section. Stir Gilbert Parker Who conies with the Imperial Preso Conference as one of the proprietors of a combine of newspapers, Loncou is Still the World's Money Centre Is despatch from Vancouver says London is still the world's financial centro and there is every indication that it will -remain so indefinitely, is the opinion of Mr. W. G. Murrin, as- sistant general manager of the Bri- tish Columbia Electric P.ailway Com - pane., who has just returned from a visit of three and a half months to Greet Britain, during which he dis- cussed with some of the leading fin- ancial men,. questions relating to the int etsment of capital in this country and the opportunities existing here for industrial development. "Enormous demands are beim made upon London for funds at present, and in consequence money has tightened to a point where it is very difficult to obtain," Mr. Murrin pointed out. "From all parts of the world these de- mands are being pressed, but the men who have control are very observant upon these things in general and are proceeding cautiously." Speak:ng of industrial conditions in England, Mr. Murrin said there could be no denying the fact that the people as a, whole seemed to be still imbued with the same serious spirit they held during the \great war and in conse- quence the heavy burden of debt was being gradually lifted. India and China contain approxi- thepe to replenish the depleted propa- ganda mately one-half the total population coffers of the Soviets. of the world. ee esees'^"s✓se ✓ si ✓sVim. l - RECORD SALE OF CANADIAN SleORTHORNS A new high price for Canadian Shorthorn (female) was set at the Dryden -Miller sale, Juiy 21, at Broolclin. Ont., when Sir Frank Bailey, Oakville, Out,, purchased the two-year-old Countess Selma the Fourth, with her cait, tor $5,200.00 The sale was the biggest ever held on the continent and was attended by cattle experts from all parts of the United States And Canada. The auction realized $130,000.00 and 106 cows were sold at an average price of $1,109.00, URBAN POPULATION EXCEEDS RURAL U.S, Census Returns Show In- crease in City Dwellers. A despatch from Washington says: For the first time in the lt'rwtory of the United States, the 1920 census re- turns will show that more persons live in the cities and towns than In the rural territory, officials of the Census Bureau have estimated. When the final tabulations are roan- plated, the officials declared, they ex- pect it to be shown that 51 or possibly 52 per cent. of the total population of the continental Unled States reside in urban districts. That the urban population would ex- ceed x ceed the rural ha,s become increasing ly evident as the tabulations of the past several weeks were completed, census officials stated. With the popu- lation'of about one-third of the cities and towns, including practically all at the larger titles, and about one-third of the counties, tabulated and an- pounced, the bureau statisticians feel certain that the rural population will bo shown to be less than the urban. `"There has been a very great ten- dency toward large increases in the etties and towns, which we cannot ac- count for, unless it has come from the country," said Samuel L. Rgers, direc- tor of the census. "This tendency to- ward the cities has been apparent Or some time." Tramped 2,000 Miles. Sergeant W. O. Douglas of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is here shown as the, hero of an exploit un- equalled iia, the annals of the cele- brated body of thief -catchers of the Northwest. He left Fullerton, Ont., on Dec. 19, 1919, with a warrant, and af- ter enduring all kinds of hardships in the Canadian timber -land, arrested Ou-Aug-yak,, a°Si outia:v of the Padle- mut:tribe who half terrified the.Baker Lake region on Feb. 19th. He hndecl his prisoner safely . in Fullerton • on May 13th, 1920, having travelled 2,000 miles. He went over trackless wastes and through blinding snow storms and gave some of his supplies to Es- kithos he found •starving, ALLIES SEND AID T3 POLAND British Sen Cavalry and Ar- mored Motors and Planes.. Hears Song Across Ocean by Wireless Markets of the World Wholesale Grain. Toronto, Aug. 10—Manitoba Wheat No. 1 Northern, $3.15- No. 2 North- ern, $3.12; No. 3 Northern, $8.08, in store Fort William. Manitoba oats= No. 2 CW, 96%c, in store Fort William, Ulan. barley—No. 2 CW, $1.37SS ; Nofeed,, 4$iC.02W, 31.27y2; rejected, $1.0214s ; a. nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship- inept.American corn =No, 3 yellow, 31.85; Ontario oats—No:3 white, nominal. Ontario wheat—No. 2 Winter, per car lot, 32.20 to 32.30, shipping points, according to freights. Peas—No. 2, nominal. Barley -41.25 to $1.30, according to freights. outside. Buckwheat -••-No, 2, nominal. tofrei Rye—ghts iso. outride. 3 31.75, according Manitoba flour—Government stand- ard, 314.85, Toronto. Ontario flour --.Government stand- ard, 312.00, nominal. Aiillfeed-• eCar lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $52; shorts, per ton, 361; good, feed flour, $3..75 to 34.00. Country Produce -Wholesale. Cheese—New, large, 30 to 31c; twins, 31 to 31=rse.; triplets, 32 to old, large, 33 to 34e; do, twins, 33IS to 3 i?ee; Stiltons, old, 35 to 33a; new, 33 to 34e, Sutter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 50e; creamery, prints, 59 to 02e, Margarine ---35 to 39e. Eg--°•No, 1, 58 to G0e; selects, 62 A despatch from St. John's, Nfld.,�ta Facgs. rays; :When Chelmsford, Eng,, was Dreseed poultry—Spring chickens, giving a wireless telephone deinonstra- 45e; roosters, 30e; fowl, 35e; turkeys. , A de.epat h from. Warsaw says:—A tion to Denmark at 5 p.m, on Satur--53 to 60c: duckbmge,.38 to 4.0e; squabs,. demand made on the British Govern- day, the experimental station on E doze $6..'0, ment },.v its epresentatives here upon Signal Hill here picked up the sounds' Live Poultry—.Sprint chickens, 38e, learning c£ the failure. of the arm s- and heard, without interruption, the; roosters, 26e, fowl, 30e, dtitklings, 35e ties nc;,otiateus includes the sending words uttered by Ii. J. Rounds, the° .Buns—Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,. to Poland el two British infantry di- manager at Chelmsford, who was talk $' 2''; primes, $4; Japans, 35;ale.LIMAS,. visions, two brigades of cavalry and ing with the oparator in Denmark. EEMadaga:>.ax, }..,.ta .l .pan, l0 to lac. all the armored automobiles and air- sir. Rounds was heard to tell Den -4 ?tFip c pr,:ducts S.rup, Per imp. Fiile.740,?3t.10.5;lia;ppleersuila,c,alirTibgnsi,gals„planes possible, nierk that Melchior ks o.d l rig.Signal]b., 2?They are expecting the arrival soonHill kept in touch and heard distinctly 34, of three hundred British commissions four songs sung in Danish. as well as ed officers to be distributed through- the conversation that followed between out the Polish array, whose chief . Denmark and Chelmsford. Cbeimaford weakness lies in its officering. and St. John's are 2,673 miles apart It is understood the French will con- tribute six hundred officers in au. u.. Germans Join Russialns, Prov isions--Wfiolcsale. Smoked meats --Hauls, med., 47 to 60s; heav *, 40 to 42c; cooked, 04 to 68c; rolls, 34 to 86e; cottage rolls, 3S cl3 Unemployment to 41e; breakfast hacon, 50 to 55e; Lool;~ed for in. Britain becto ks, plain. 52. to ,4-e;; boneless, 5S in Large Numbers A despatch from London says:•- oared meats --Long clear baton, 2"I. $' to 28:.; clear bellies, 26 to 27o - Premier Lloyd George stated in the Lard -Pure Herres, 27 to 28e; tubs, A despatch from London says:-- House of Commons that the Govern- 28'4i to 29e; pails, 29 to 29l, e; prints, Whsle the belief is very general here ment were considering measures in 291a to 30c; Compound tierces-, 25 to that the Bolshevists will not stop their expectation of much unemployment 2514e; tubs, 251;, to 26e; pails. 25%, offensive until they capture Warsaw or during the coming Winter. to 2614e; prints, 27 to 27y e let- up ft Red Government there, offi- ,----es,----...... o mai information from Koenigsberg, 1 Green Flash of Sunset. .M Markets, Montreal, Aug. 10.—Oats—No. 2 0 East Prussia, states that German offi- One of the most rarely witnessed of , W, 31.20 to $1.22; No. 3 CW, 31,18 to cars and soldiers volunteering for ser natural phenomena, but one that has "$1,20. Flour, Mau. Spring wheat pa - vice in. the Russian army are passing often been discussed in scientific*tents, first, new standard grade, 314.85 through the city in great numbers. circles and that always awal:eus won- to $.15.05. Rolled oats, 90-11s. bag, It has been known for some time that der when seen, is the so-called "green $6.80�ta $5.85. Bran, $5t,?5. Shorts, the Pan -Germans have had a special hash" occasionally visible at the ma- $612`' Cheese, finest easterns, 241ec., recruitin a ency in Koeni she$utter, choicest ereizmery, 68c, Egg-; fa g fa '� meat et the disappearance of the sun under the direction of German Baltic adventurers, but it has become known only recently that soldiers and officers volunteering there have been sent 'to Soviet Russia. League of Nations to Have General Staff A despatch from 'San Sebastian, Spain, says:—A plan proposed by M. Leon Bourgeois, the French spokes- man in the League of Nations Coun- cil, and the .French General Fayolle for an international general staff as part of the League of Nations, has been adopted here. The staff is to be composed of the al 1es�i of military and naval nien, who will act as agents of the, League, The members will be in con$eren :e as often as need be, and in event of impending difficulties which might mean armed conflict they will draw up plans in ad- vance no as to be ready for em- ergencies, os, Britain Again Biorades Russia A despatch from London says:— Orders have been issued reimposing the blockade on Soviet Ruasia, Pre- mier Lloyd George informed M. Kras- sin, the Soviet commercial agent here, the Daily Express declares. • King George receives an average of 25,000 letters' a year from his sub- jects. It is proposed to establish a white- fish canning industry in northern Al- berta. It is Said there is no finer fish in fresh water than the whitefish of the far north rivers and lakes. behind a. clear horizon. The observers eye must be fixed upon the rim of the sun as It disap- pears in order to catch the phenomen- on, An officer of the British Navy Toronto, Aug. 10.—Choice heave says that he has seen the green flash, steers, 314.50 to $15 good heavy although rarely, at the instant et sot- 'steers, $14 to $11,25: butchers' cattle ting of a bright star. Among the ex- planations offered is one based upon the optical principle of complementary colors. If one looks at the sun and do, rough, $6 to $8; butchers' cows, then closes the eyes a green disc will choice, 311,50 to 312, do, tioocl, 310.75 bo perceived. A sensitive eye might to $lis do, cane, $301.25;04:0, 6.00 to 37.50; sttsclt, fresh, 58e. Potatoes, per bags, ear lots, 32.00 to 32.50, Lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 283 to 29c. Live Stock Markets. choice, 313.75 to 314; do, good, 313 to 313.50; do, med., $12 to 312.50; day cion., 37.50 to 39; ;hulls, choice, $11.15 to $12.20; do, good, $10.75 to $11.25; be similarly affected by a brilliant star. --esMiss Frances Billington Representing the Society of Woman Journalists, England, who will be the only lady representative from Britain to attend the imperial Press Con- ference at Ottawa. It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken ers, $9 to $11; feeders, $11 to 312.50; canners and cutters, 35 to 341.25; milk- ers, food to choice, 311. to 3165; do., come and med., 365 to 375; lambs, year kings, $10.50 to $12.50; do, spring, $12 to 316; calves, gd. to choice, $ r i.50 to 319; sheep, $(4,50 to $11.50; hogs, fed and watered, $20.75; ds, treo hed off cars, $21; do, fob,. 319.75; do, do, country peen t Si0.50. Montreal, Aug. 10. Butcher heifers, corn., 36 to $t;.50; butcher cow«, med., $6 to 39; canners. $3 to 34; cutters, 34 to $5.50; butcher bulla, can:., 35.50 to 36.50; good veal, $14 to $15; med., $9 to 313; grass, 37 to $8; ewes, $5 to 38; lambs, good, $13 to 314; cam., $11 to 313; hogs, off car weights, selects, 320,50 to 3121; sows, 316.50 to $17. Britain's Crop Fails; Looks to Canada A despatch from London says:— Unprecedented weather has marred the British harvest prospects. "It is to Canada mainly that Britain's 45,- 000,000 consumers must look hopefully for imports to supplement Britain's deficiency," says a London grain ex.. porter. "It is estimated here that Cane ado's total crop will be 200,000,000 bushels of wheat." By Jack Rabbit - I<E•No ©oLL.PAS OF, QU F.1`.!`'E. 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